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E. A. P. CAMPBELL.

FASTENING FOR DOORS.

No. 366,377 Patented July 12, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

ELIZABETH A. P. CAMPBELL, OE NE\V YORK, N. Y.

FASTENING FOR DOORS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,377, dated July 12, 1857.

Application filed October-27, IFEG. Serial No. 217,354.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH A. P. CAMP BELL, of New Yorl ,in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Fastenings for Doors, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates to means for so curing doors against thieves and burglars.

I will describe my improved door-fastener in detail, and then point out the novel features in claims.

In the accompanying drawings, .Figure 1 is a front elevation of a door and door-casing having my improved fastening applied thereto and shown partly in section. Fig. 2 is a transverse section thereof on the plane of the dotted line :0 m, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail ofa securing device employed therein, on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts.

A designates the door, and B the door casing. These may be of the usual or any de sired construction.

G designates a frame comprising side portions, 0, and a top portion, 0, extending be tween the portions 0. Preferably the portions 0 0 will be detachably secured together.

Such a connection is shown as consisting in passing the ends of the portions 0 through suitable holes or eyes, I), formed in the porin any suitable manner.

tions 0 near one of their ends, and applying nuts to the ends of the portion 0 outside the eyes. The frame extends about the door-casing at a distance from the door when the latter is closed, and is secured to the door-casing It is advantageous to so secure it by screw-eyes a, which may be screwed into the casing at desired intervals and the portions 0 0 passed through the eyes before such portions are secured together.

It will be seen that the screw-eyes maintain the frame at a distance from the surface of the door-casing. The portions of the screw-eyes which surround the frame constitute in effect projections on the frame; but projections might be formed thereon in a different manner-as, for instance, by rings or collars secured on the frame. In the example of my improvement shown, the frame is made of round metal bars;

of the portions j j.

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but-they may be of any suitable or desired shape. The metal bars and the screw-eyes may be ornamented in any desirable manner.

D D designate two portions of a bar. Each of these portions is bifurcated near one end, so that it may embrace the frame 0. These bifurcated ends will rest upon certain of the projections on the frame when the bar is in place, and the bar will be supported thereby. Of course it may be so supported upon any two of the projections which are opposite each other. The other ends of the portions D D are slotted for a distance, as at d.

J designates a device which I will term a key and brace. This device is made in two sections, pivoted together so asto open and close like a pair of shears. When open, it comprises arms j and j. The armsjarc longer than the arms 9', and comprise sliding sections j", which may be adjusted into differ-- ent positions lengthwise of the fixed portions of said arms and secured therein by bolts j", extending through longitudinal slots, as showm By this means the arms j may be lengthened or shortened. The ends of these arms, when the device is open and in place, bear against the door. They will preferably be beveled off, as shown,-and provided with pads or coveringsj, of rubber or other suitable material, to prevent abrasion of the door.

The device J subserves the double function of securing the portions D D of the bar together, and acts as a brace between the bar and the door. The two portions of the bar having been placed upon the frame 0, as de scribed, the slotted ends are brought together about the device J at about the point where the two portions of said device are pivoted to gethcr. The device then being opened sufficiently far, the bar will be gripped upon either side between projections 3' on the outer edges The device is then looked in this position by a look, presently to be described. The arms j are lengthened or shortened, as required, so that their beveled ends will come firmlyin contact with the door, and are then secured by the bolts j, as described. The arms j, having once been adjusted in this manner to a given door, need not be again changed for the same door. The bar D D, when thus secured together, being in effect a rigid bar, it will readily be seen that pressure brought to bear upon the door to open it will befirmly resisted.

I have shown a simple means for locking the device J open, consisting in a swinging bar, I, pivoted near one end to one of the arms j, and adapted to be interlocked with the other of saidarms near its other end.

this band or strip may be inserted in an aperture in or hung upon the bar D D. If the doorfastening is tampered with, the bell will sound an alarm. A portiere or curtain maybe hung upon the portion '0' of the frame 0, if desirable.

Of course other means than those shown can be employed for maintaining the bar D D upon the frame G-as, for instance, the frame might be provided with apertures and the ends of the bar be inserted in the apertures.

I do not wish to be limited to the particular kind of lock shown for securing the device J in an open position, as any other suit-able lock may be employed. I

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination,with a door and a door- 5 casing,'of a frame secured to the casing and surrounding the door, said frame being provided with projections, abar madein two sections, each section being supported at one of its ends by one of the proj ections on said frame, 0 and a securing device comprising two portions pivotally connected together near their centers and adapted when in a certain position to grip and secure together the other ends of said bar-sections and afford a brace against the 45 door, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a door and doorcasing, of a frame secured to the casing and surrounding the door, said frame being provided with projections, a bar made in two sec- 50 tions, each section being supported at one of its ends upon one of the projections on. said frame, and a securing device comprising two portions pivotally connected together near their centers and adapted when in a certain '55 position to grip and secure together the other ends of said barsections and afford a brace against the door, said securing device being provided with sliding sections, substantially as specified.

ELIZABETH A. P. CAMPBELL.

. WVitnesses:

WM. L. BANKS, HIRAM PAULDING, WM.'M. SKINNER, Jr. 

